If you have one pot
And can make your tea in it
That will do quite well.
How much he is missing
Who must have a lot of things.
Sen no Rikyu, 1522 – 1591, Japanese tea master
Tag: Life
Infinite space
Just as people for a long time had a wrong idea about the sun’s motion,
they are even now wrong about the motion of what is to come.
The future stands still, but we move in infinite space.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Crafting meaning
Meaning does not come to us in finished form, ready-made;
it must be found, created, received, constructed.
We grow our way toward it.
Ann Bedford Ulanov
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How we see
The mind is the source of all experience,
and by changing the direction of the mind,
we can change the quality of everything we experience
Yongey Mingpur Rinpoche
Cup by cup
But this morning, a kind day has descended, from nowhere,
and making coffee in the usual way, measuring grounds
with the wooden spoon, I remembered,
this is how things happen, cup by cup, familiar gesture
after gesture, what else can we know of safety
or of fruitfulness?
Marie Howe, American Poet, From Nowhere
Fully here
When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. The same is true of time. When you touch one moment with true awarenes, you touch all moments. According to the Avatamsaka Sutra, “The one contains the all”. If you live one moment deeply, that moment contains all the past and the future in it
Thich Nhat Hanh, Your True Home
